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  • Country Music

    Selected Early Poems

    by Charles Wright ...
    A compilation of powerful and moving poems from early in the poet's career.Co-winner of the 1983 National Book Award for Poetry, Country Music is comprised of eighty-eight poems selected from Charles Wright's first four books published between 1970 and 1977. From his first book, The Grave of the Right Hand, to the extraordinary China Trace, this selection of early works represents "Charles Wright ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Darkening Trapeze

    Last Poems

    by Larry Levis, David St. John ...
    *The empty bar that someone was supposed to swing to himDid not arrive, & so his outstretched flesh itself becameA darkening trapeze. The two other acrobats were thieves.*--from "Elegy with a Darkening Trapeze Inside It"The Darkening Trapeze collects the last poems by Larry Levis, written during the extraordinary blaze of his final years when his poetry expanded into the ambitious operatic ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Committee of Men

    by James Ciano ...
    James Ciano’s debut collection, The Committee of Men, explores the cycles of violence men inflict on one another and themselves, examining how silence, shame, and inherited expectations shape masculine identity. Rooted in the speaker’s experience as a college athlete from a family of athletes—including a father who is a high school football coach—these poems confront the emotional weight of ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Last Troubadour

    New and Selected Poems

    by David St. John ...
    A haunting and intimately observed new collection from David St. John, a poet of soaring imagination and passionate candorIn The Last Troubadour, David St. John has given us a collection of new and selected poems of astonishing beauty, precise and keenly observed but also touched with sensuality and deep feeling. Nothing is too small to escape notice (in “Guitar” St. John reflects on the beauty of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Cats Work Like This

    by David St John Thomas, Gareth St John Thomas ...
    Cats Work Like This was started by David St John Thomas in his 80th year and has been finished by his son Gareth. It gives a rare insight into the workings of cats’ elusive minds, gleaned from the authors’ two generations of watching their cats work. Learn about political and ‘eco’ cats, what cats do while you sleep, and what a cat’s eyes can tell you. Focusing on attention, emotion, manipulation ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • The Selected Levis

    Revised Edition

    by Larry Levis ...
    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    Edited and with an Afterword by David St. JohnWhen Larry Levis died suddenly in 1996, Philip Levine wrote that he had years earlier recognized Levis as "the most gifted and determined young poet I have ever had the good fortune to have in one of my classes. . . . His early death is a staggering loss for our poetry, but what he left is a major achievement that will enrich our lives." Each of his ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • An Emperor Among Us

    The Eccentric Life and Benevolent Reign of Norton I, Emperor of the United States, as Told by Mark Twain

    by David St. John ...
    As cigar smoke hangs heavy in Mark Twains sitting room, the members of the Monday Evening Club eagerly await his presentation, which they think will be the reading of his paper The Decay of the Art of Lying. Instead, Twain changes his mind and enthralls his audience with the true tale of one mans unconventional and fascinating journey through life.It is 1849 when a thirty-one-year-old Jewish South ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Railway Season

    by David St John Thomas ...
    Celebrate the days when trains were trains, individual expresses had their own character, serving their passengers in style in restaurant car, and connecting services ran over picturesque branch lines that were a very part of the countryside they served.Railway Season by David St John Thomas whose Country Railway sold an astonishing 170,000 copies, captures all our railway yesterdays with panache. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Country Railway

    by David St John Thomas ...
    Possibly read more than any other railway book, The Country Railway has sold over 170,000 copies. This is a redesigned edition of the original text and photographs.Everyone loved the country railway with its neat stations and colourful gardens, the shining brasswork of its tank engines, viaducts daringly built over gushing rivers, embankments carpeted with flowers, and guards whose appearance and ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Humanistic Approaches to Multiculturalism and Diversity

    Perspectives on Existence and Difference

    Edited by Louis Hoffman, Heatherlyn Cleare-Hoffman, Nathaniel Granger, Jr., David St. John ...
    Providing an overview of essential topics in multicultural psychology, Humanistic Approaches to Multiculturalism and Diversity focuses on the intersection of humanistic psychology and multiculturalism, including history, theory, research, and practice.The authors examine the unique contributions of humanistic psychology to multicultural psychology on topics often ignored, such as cultural empathy ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Shame / Shame

    by Devin Becker ...
    "Devin Becker's Shame | Shame is a brilliant debut collection. Here, the prose poem has been re-imagined as a cinematic vignette, yet rooted as deeply in the American Northwest as anything in Richard Hugo and David Lynch. Raw, intimate, and elliptical in its metaphysics, Devin Becker's poetry captures an idiomatic recklessness while navigating those angular narratives of our contemporary lives." ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Face

    A Novella in Verse

    by David St. John ...

    $6.99 USD